Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people, a tenth of the population of Los Angeles at the time, buggied out to dedicate the "university"-a small frame building in a wild mustard field. But the promise was elusive; even in 1927, U.S.C.'s endowment income was only $21,000. Still, U.S.C. managed to train most of its area's doctors, lawyers and teachers until the late 1940s, when mushrooming U.C.L.A. overtook...
Beneath the platform would be service areas, shops, a concourse, schools. There would be a road on the island, but all motor vehicles, except for fire and police use, would be banned; residents would either walk or take a "Carveyer"-a below-level train. A subway station, bridge and ferry service would provide access to the island. Estimated cost of turning city-owned Welfare Island into "East Island": $450 million, including an undetermined amount for leasing the island...
...military advisory groups to help train the self-defense corps, the local village militias...
...crowd of Democratic Party followers was ordered by Menderes to demonstrate against Inonu in May 1959, overzealously pelted Inonu's car with stones and beat on it with sticks. Item: on Menderes' order, the army harassed Inonu on a political stumping tour in Anatolia, held up his train for three hours, turned him away from a village he was attempting to visit. Item: Democratic Party goons in the Anatolian towns of Canakkale and Geyikli bullied, attacked and injured Republican politicians, though not provably at Menderes' orders...
...British manager of a Siamese lumber camp imagines that he has leprosy and goes jungle-crazy; in "Tahiti Waits," a young man avoids marrying the girl he loves by plunging into a passionate affair with a vahine; in The Wicked Baronet, a mystery that began on a slow train through Wessex is resolved on a sun-dappled veranda in the Virgin Islands. The sea change caused by these junketings around the globe is generally favorable to Waugh's writing. In his 1926 The Making of a Matron, he needed 17 pages to dissect the not-too-complex character...